World Cup Qualifying

If they don’t get a replay they will probably get a cheque for $5 million dollars instead.

Bob Hoskins wrote: The Yanks won't lower themselves to make a complaint like that.

Wow, just seen the 'goal' wasn't even close!! Their players didn't even claim it had gone in from the amount I seen.
But the USA lost their game. They only have themselves to blame.
If they really go back and replay this, they'll need to replay alot of games and we learnt the hard way. The refs decision is final.

Edit:it should have been a penalty though. So maybe they would have scored anyway.

Edited by Pubes - 11 Oct 2017 at 2:48pm

If you thought our qualifying group had a fair amount of travel, spare a moment's thought for fans of Australia.

Their route has seen their games played in:
Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)
Perth
Dushanbe (Tajikistan)
Amman (Jordan)
Canberra
Dhaka (Bangladesh)
Adelaide
Sydney
Perth
Abu Dhabi (UAE)
Jeddah (Saudi Arabia)
Melbourne
Bangkok (Thailand)
Tehran (Iran, vs Iraq)
Sydney
Adelaide
Saitama
Melbourne
Krubong (Malaysia, vs Sudan)
Sydney
San Pedro Sula (Honduras)
Sydney

That is a fair bit of travel alright, The least travel time (abroad) for those would be about 8 hours

Sure Sydney to Perth would be about 4-5 hours madness

FrankosHereNow wrote: They  did choose to move to Asia though.

To save themselves playing a south American side. Wise move

SuperDave84 wrote: If you thought our qualifying group had a fair amount of travel, spare a moment's thought for fans of Australia.

It's their own bloody fault, considering they shouldn't be in the Asian Confederation in the first place.

Send them back to Oceania, I say, and kick Kazakhstan out of UEFA to take their place.

Then allow the Channel Islands to take the Kazahks' place in Europe.

Sorted! 


Edited by Territorial - 11 Oct 2017 at 6:21pm

I watched the end of their match against Syria. It went over to their TV coverage and their version of Darragh Maloney said this is one of the most average squads we've ever had but they really have great spirit.So it seems like a very similar situation to ourselves.

The 2018 World Cup is going to be drawn entirely based on seeding. There won't be geographical pots, just seeded pots. It's all going off the October rankings, not the November rankings.

Now, I imagine they'll have the same restrictions so that you can't have more than two European teams in one group, and you can't have more than one team from one other confederation in a group, but it is interesting that they're going to do it entirely on rankings. It might make the actual draw itself even more complex.

Incidentally, if we qualify, we will be third seeds.


Edited by SuperDave84 - 11 Oct 2017 at 7:32pm